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resume.pdf (30kb) resume.doc (48kb) resume.txt (4kb) Objective Lead user experience design position in a high growth software/technology company designing innovative and impactful user experience for next generation web, mobile and desktop application. Summary

Eight years of comprehensive professional experience in designing creative and usable solutions for web-based and desktop applications.

Passionate about providing simple and elegant solution to help users distill complex data into understandable and meaningful experiences.

Extensive knowledge of platform-specific user interface standards and guidelines, as well as programming languages and software development environments.

Highly skilled at executing design deliverables - wireframes, interactive prototypes, design patterns, and UI specifications.

Demonstrate consistently the ability to lead and thrive in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

Known as a consensus builder in cross- functional, cultural, and -national development teams, adept at engaging product management and engineering early in the development cycle to understand requirements, identify and mitigate high-risk features.

Professional Experience

01/06

- Present http://www.informatica.comInformatica Corporation Redwood City, CA Principal User Experience Designer

Design

Designed a wide range of web-based and desktop enterprise applications including Informatica Developer, PowerCenter (both graphical IDEs), Informatica OnDemand (now Cloud ), and Administration Console.

Lead the design of web services with hierarchical data processing for Informatica Developer 9.1, recently released in March 2011.

Drive design in both IDE environment and core UI components to enhance developers user experience, productivity and efficiency. Specific UI areas include editors, wizards, navigation, window management, preferences, commands, and views.

Defined and documented 150 design patterns in the Informatica Thick-Client Design Patterns Library.

Develop innovative interaction capabilities and paradigms to managing the cartography and complexity of large diagrams and lineage.

Consistently create and present high quality, highly leveraged deliverables, including task-flow diagrams, user-experience goals and scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, design concepts, interactive prototypes, design specifications, and pattern documentation.

User research, validation and usability

Drive the formation and use of lead users to participate in requirements gathering, design validation, usability testing, alpha testing throughout the product lifecycle.

Conduct and assist in usability studies for major releases based on resourcing.

Analyze, interpret and present data from usability studies. Prioritize UI recommendations based on usability report findings.

Perform heuristic evaluation on existing and acquired products to inform next-generation UI design.

resume.htm#topReturn to top 07/03 - 12/05 http://www.zobristinc.comZobrist Consulting Group, Inc. Van Nuys, CA Information Architect, E-Business Consultant Information Architecture, UI Design and Implementation

Participated in fact-finding meetings and client interviews to gather, clarify requirements and constrain scope.

Authored process flow charts, business process documents, and system interactivity model.

Defined and developed interactions, wireframes and site maps.

Created visual design, interface, navigation, image compression and optimization tailoring to specific client requirements, branding schemes and business goals.

Translated/coded visual designs to prototypes using HTML/XHTML, JSP, CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript using WebSphere Application Suite and Dreamweaver.

e-Commerce Usability

Developed and executed heuristic evaluation on B2B web sites and applications.

Restructured web sites by developing wireframes based on recommendations from usability evaluation results.

Proposed search engine optimization strategies to achieve better positioning on leading search engines.

Project Management, Account Management, Client Relationship Development

Developed project management plans, manage business and project team expectations to ensure project delivery is on time and in budget.

Responsible for ongoing customer relationship, maintenance, and feature enhancement.

Provided feedback and training to functional managers of client team.

resume.htm#topReturn to top Academic Experience 01/03 - 05/03 http://www.sims.berkeley.eduSchool of Information UC Berkeley, CA Masters Final Project iCoach, an interactive interview training program iCoach is an interactive multimedia system to assist job seekers improve their speaking skills in a job interview by streamlining the audio/video capturing, audio analysis, and performance report generating processes. Interacting with a virtual agent, user will perform a mock interview and have his/her interaction recorded by a camera. The system then performs audio analysis on user's speaking characteristics.

Conducted interviews, site visits, and surveys to assess user needs

Created personas/scenarios to help design user model and interface specifications

Researched in voice analysis methods and interview skills to provide feedback and suggestion on effective speaking

Developed prototypes to communicate design ideas and iteratively evaluate prototypes

Programmed in C and C++ to gather, analyze data and perform audio and speech analysis

Designed and performed iterative usability tests and prototype evaluations

07/02 - 05/03 http://www.cbe.berkeley.eduCenter for the Built Environment UC Berkeley, CA Graduate Student Researcher Interface Design for a real-time price driven energy monitoring and control system

Gained thorough understanding of the PalmOS User Interface Guidelines

Designed and developed user interface for different platforms and media in HP, HTML, JavaScript, Flash MX, Java Swing

09/02

- 12/02 inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/fa02#projects Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC Berkeley, CA Course projects for CS186 Introduction to Database Systems

Applied relational and object-relational database design principles

Programmed extensively in PHP, C and PL/pgSQL to implement functions and decision support

Extended PostgreSQL to create new data types, functions, operators, and aggregates

Optimized queries using PostgreSQL optimizer

08/01 - 05/02 http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/realestate/ Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics UC Berkeley, CA Interaction Designer UrbanPlan, an interactive tool to simulate urban redevelopment for high school students

Conducted interviews and site visits to research user behavior and needs

Programmed extensively in Flash MX ActionScript

08/01

- 05/02 http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs3/fa05 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC Berkeley, CA Graduate Student Instructor Computer Science 3: Introduction to Symbolic Programming

Developed lesson plans, led discussions, instructed lab sections and held office hours for over 50 students

Assisted in creating exam questions and grading exams, assignments and projects

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Design activities: brain storming, information architecture, wireframing, persona building, story boarding, scenarios drafting, design simulation and rapid interactive prototyping, pattern documentation, standard and remote usability study planning, facilitation and execution, product auditing, heuristic evaluation.

Design patterns: deep knowledge in defining patterns for Eclipse-based applications, working knowledge of patterns in gestural, social, web and mobile interfaces.

Domain expertise: Integrated Development Environment, Eclipse, Web Services, Graphical Editing Environment, Administrative Consoles, Real-Time Activity Monitoring, Dashboards, Large-scale Enterprise Application, E-Commerce solutions using the IBM WebSphere suite (WebSphere Studio Application Developer, WebSphere Commerce Suite, and WebSphere Application Server)

Web production: CSS3 page layout, wireframing, rapid prototyping in HTML/XHTML, search engine optimization, and site optimization

Languages: HTML5/XHTML/DHTML, CSS3, Flash with ActionScript, JSP, Java, JavaScript, PHP, XML, XSLT.

Applications: Dreamweaver, Freehand, Fireworks, Flash, InDesign, Illustrator, Pencil, Photoshop, wireframing using Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.

Spoken language: Native fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese.

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Education 08/01 - 05/03 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA M. S. in Information Management and Systems with an emphasis in HCI

Courses: User Interface Design and Development, Perception, Needs and Usability Assessment, Multimedia Information, Document Engineering for eBusiness in XML, Java for Programmer, Flash

08/97 - 05/01 http://www.lander.edu Lander University Greenwood, SC B. S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics

Courses: Programming in C++, Data Structure, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, Desktop Publishing resume.htm#topReturn to top Training

04/09 http://www.vervago.com/Vervago, San Jose, CA Precision Questioning and Answering Workshop: a one-day workshop on critical thinking and precise communication

12/06 http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/coursesEdward Tufte, San Francisco, CA Presenting Data and Information: a one-day course taught by Edward Tufte on effective display and visualization of information

09/06-12/06 http://www.foothill.edu/ctis/dept_CIS.phpFoothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA Advanced Flash: a three-month course on interactivity and actionscripting in Flash

06/06 - 06/06 http://cooper.com/content/cooperu/classes.aspCooper Design, San Francisco, CA Interaction Design Practicum: a 4-day professional course in Interaction Design for digital products

03/05 - 06/05 http://www.uclaextension.eduUCLA Extension Fundamentals of Project Management: a two-month course on the principles and practices of project management

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